Dermoscopic diagnosis of melanoma in a 4D space constructed by active contour extracted features

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 572-579

  Mete, Mutlu ^a   Sirakov, Nikolay Metodiev ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abrupt; Diagnosis; Image processing; Regions; Skin lesion features; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT; ACTIVE CONTOURS; AUTOMATED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER AIDED METHODS; DATA SETS; DERMOSCOPY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; F-MEASURE; FEATURES EXTRACTION; GROUND TRUTH; LESION IMAGE; LINEAR CLASSIFIERS; LINEAR SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; MALIGNANT SKIN; NONLINEAR CLASSIFIERS; POLYNOMIAL CLASSIFIER; QUANTIFICATION METHODS; REGIONS; SKIN LESION; SVM CLASSIFIERS;

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; DERMATOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ONCOLOGY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

DIAGNOSIS;

ARTICLE; BENIGN SKIN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MELANOMA; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SHRINKING ACTIVE CONTOUR EXTRACTS; SKIN CANCER; SKIN DEFECT; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

DERMOSCOPY; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MELANOMA; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84865547373     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: 18790771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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